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Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Fair

Last weekend Neill and I, along with my cousin and her gentleman, made a trip to my home town for the Stanislaus County Fair. Now, it's easy to romanticize the fair (especially with the über cool Hiptamatic camera app on my phone), what with its carnival rides and games and general rural goodness. But in actuality, it's usually extremely hot (the 100's this year), pretty filthy (including the air, if there happens to be a tractor pull going on), and filled with many an unsavory character. Regardless, no summer is complete without it. The best part? The food, of course.

So we put on our Western garb...

And started with the animals, raised by the various 4-H groups in the county: piggies...

goats...

cows...

bunnies...

and birds.

Heidi (my cousin) has dreams of being a 4-H girl herself.

In my opinion, the very best fair food is served at the VFW booth. Their cheeseburgers rival In-n-Out's, I swear.

Mmm...

We played some games,

and rode the Ferris Wheel.

The home arts section of the exhibit hall was a little sparse this year, but I thought this first place crocheted cardigan was adorable.

My other favorite food item is the pie from the Latif's booth (HA! Latif's has a Yelp page!!).(This was after the 4-H milkshakes. Piggies.)

We headed back to the car at around 10pm exhausted, full, and sweaty (it was still 100 degrees), just like every other year. I love how some things never change. :)

I'm in Fresno and have always made a point of going to the good ol' fair... even when I lived in Santa Barbara and it took me 8 hours round-trip to get back here! The tacos alone made the trip worth it.